wespeters / moviescope

MovieScope

Pitch

MovieScope is an interactive app where users can access information about a collection of movies and view crowd-sourced ratings and reviews. Users can participate by sharing their own opinions, and adding/deleting movies from the collection.

Wireframe

Home Page

Movie Detail Page

User Stories

• As a user, I want to be able to view a list of all movie cards upon loading the home page (GET).
• I want to be able to filter the movies displayed on the home page by searching movies by title.
• Clicking on a movie card will bring up the detail page for the clicked movie (GET).
• Clicking ‘Edit/Update’ will open a form to edit that movie’s data (GET). Submitting that form will update the data and re-render the page with the update (PUT).
• I want to click a link to navigate to a form where I can add a new movie to the database (POST).
• I also want to be able to delete a movie from the database (DELETE).

Authors and Acknowledgement

Created by John Phonxaya and Wes Peters

License

MIT

How to Run this App in Your Local Environment

Fork and clone to your machine.

In the project directory, you can run:

npm install

Then run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

npm run server

Starts the j-son server.

General Functionality of this Single-Page Application

Here is the general functionality of this single-page application:

• The application is a movie database.
• The application consists of four main views:
  • The home page shows a list of movies fetched from an API. Each movie is displayed on a card with details and a link to a detailed view.
  • Clicking on a movie card navigates the user to a movie detail page, displaying more information about the movie and an option to edit the movie details.
  • The "Add Movie" page provides a form for the user to add a new movie to the database.
  • The "Edit Movie" page provides a form to edit the title of the existing movie.
• The application uses React Router to manage the routing between these views.

Here is a breakdown of the code for each component:

App.js

• Imports the necessary libraries and components.
• Defines the App function, which returns the component to be rendered.
• Inside the App function, Router, NavBar and Routes are used to set up the application's routes and render the navbar.
• Five Route components are defined, each with a path prop indicating the URL path for the route and an element prop providing the component to render when the route is active.

NavBar.js

• Imports the necessary libraries.
• Defines the NavBar function, which returns a nav element with two Link components, one for the homepage and one for the Add Movie page. These links are styled with CSS classes.

MovieList.js

• Imports the necessary libraries and components.
• Defines the MovieList function. Inside, a useState hook is used to create a state variable for the list of movies, and a useEffect hook is used to fetch the movie data from the API when the component mounts.
• The component renders a div that maps over the list of movies and creates a MovieCard for each one.

MovieDetail.js

• Imports the necessary libraries.
• Defines the MovieDetail function. Inside, a useState hook is used to create a state variable for the current movie, and a useEffect hook is used to fetch the data for the movie from the API when the component mounts or when the id prop changes.
• The component renders a div with detailed information about the movie and a Link to the Edit Movie page.

MovieCard.js

• Imports the necessary libraries.
• Defines the MovieCard function, which receives a movie object as a prop and returns a Link component that wraps a div with the movie's details. The to prop on the Link sets the URL to the movie's detail page.

EditMovieForm.js

• Imports the necessary libraries.
• Defines the EditMovieForm function, which receives a match prop from the router. Inside, a useState hook is used to create a state variable for the movie title, and a useEffect hook is used to fetch the current title from the API when the component mounts or when the id changes.
• The component renders a form that allows the user to edit the movie title and submits a PUT request to the API with the new title when the form is submitted.

AddMovieForm.js

• Imports the necessary libraries.
• Defines the AddMovieForm function. Inside, useState hooks are used to create state variables for the title, director, description, rating, and image URL of the new movie.
• The component renders a form that allows the user to enter these values and submits a POST request to the API with the new movie data when

React App Info

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

npm run eject

Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can't go back!

If you aren't satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.

Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you're on your own.

You don't have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn't feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn't be useful if you couldn't customize it when you are ready for it.

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